Confucian and Taoist scholar

Chapter 81: Burning Jiguan Mountain

"Cough cough..."

Bai Jin collapsed to the ground powerlessly, coughed for a while, and spat out a pool of black blood.

It panted and said weakly, "You have a county magistrate's handwritten treasure. Did the government send you here?"

Lu Zheng said slowly: "I just have some friendship with the county magistrate, so he gave me a few cultural treasures for self-defense... I came out on my own to travel and study and eliminate evil."

"Ah……"

Bai Jin smiled bitterly, thinking that the government was targeting him, but it turned out that Lu Zheng wanted to eliminate the evil for the people and came directly to him.

It sighed inwardly and spoke again, "I have already lost my cultivation and both arms. Can you spare my life? From now on, I will no longer do evil."

Bai Jin doesn't want to give up because of his desire to live.

"No." Lu Zheng refused without hesitation.

The man and the demon fell into silence for a moment.

Beside her, An Jing's expression suddenly changed slightly, and she felt the spirit pearl on her body react.

An Jing looked at Lu Zheng and said, "Mr. Lu, the demons here have been eliminated. I have some things to do, so I'll take my leave now."

"Hmm?" Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay, take care, young lady."

An Jing clasped his fists and smiled, "The mountains remain unchanged, the water flows forever, see you later!"

After saying that, An Jing turned around and left gracefully, following the guidance of the spirit pearl.

Lu Zheng couldn't help but think of Taoist Qingxuan. Both of them came and went in a carefree manner and their strength was unpredictable.

He didn't think that this girl was only at the second level of cultivation like him. She followed him here, probably with the intention of helping him.

Lu Zheng withdrew his gaze and looked at Bai Jin, saying calmly, "You are about to die, do you still want to protect him? You must know that he is inextricably linked to your current situation."

Bai Jin fell silent after hearing this. If that person had not tempted it with profit, it would not have sent so many demons out to collect yang energy and harm the people, causing Lu Zheng and the others to find here.

Bai Jin said slowly, "He traded elixirs and spirit stones with me. He also gave me the spirit beads that collect Yang energy... He always conceals his identity every time he comes, but I can feel that he doesn't have the aura of a real living person. He is a demon, probably a demon of the same realm as me."

Hearing this, Lu Zheng asked, "Why do you think he is at the same level as you?"

Bai Jin said, "He traded quite a bit of Yang Qi with me, but the amount wasn't huge. He was probably planning on using it to break through."

"Do you think he only made a deal with you?" Lu Zheng said.

"What?" Bai Jin was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed slightly, "You mean..."

Lu Zheng whispered, "Throughout Kaiyang County, even within the county itself, there are demons and ghosts helping him collect Yang energy. How could you think he's the same as you?"

"This……"

Bai Jin was shocked and quickly realized that this matter was not as simple as he had imagined.

If it involves the entire Kaiyang County, it is not something that a third-level monster can do.

Even Bai Jin did not dare to be so presumptuous as to allow his forces to enter the county town.

"A great demon from the fourth realm." Bai Jin murmured.

Lu Zhengdao said, "Perhaps, it could be a demonic force even more powerful than your Jiguan Mountain... Is this all you know?"

He can provide so many spirit stones and elixirs to make the monsters and ghosts in Kaiyang County work for him.

There must be a force formed behind it, and the biggest mastermind may have reached the fourth level.

"South," Bai Jin said weakly. "He always comes and goes from different locations, but from my observation, he comes from the south and goes back south the most often... He must be a demon from another county. I've been in Kaiyang County for many years and have often communicated with other demons and ghosts. I've never heard of any powerful forces or great demons from the Four Realms."

Out of town? Lu Zheng thought about it and decided that since the other party was acting cautiously, it made sense for him to hide out in another town.

"What else?" Lu Zheng asked.

Bai Jin smiled bitterly and said, "That's all I know." Lu Zheng was silent, but it was rare to find this little clue, and he didn't know what the situation was with the county magistrate.

"Tell me how many demons and ghosts you have sent out to harm the people." Lu Zheng said again.

Upon hearing this, Bai Jin thought to himself that Lu Zheng wanted to kill all the demons in Jiguana Mountain.

But now that things have come to this, it can only tell the truth. It has nothing to hide, and there is no need to hide anything.

By the time he finished telling the story, Bai Jin had become dazed and his head was dizzy due to excessive blood loss.

Seeing this, Lu Zheng acted without mercy and beheaded Bai Jin with a single sword strike.

[You killed a third-level rat demon, eliminating a local threat. Li Qi +150!]

Lu Zheng, who was originally feeling a little weak, suddenly felt more energetic.

Including some demons and ghosts he had killed before, his literary energy now reached more than eight feet.

It is very close to the triple level of Confucianism and Taoism.

It has been less than half a month, and he has already reached such a level of Taoism.

If other Confucian and Taoist scholars knew about this, they would definitely be shocked.

"This is progressing a bit too fast."

Lu Zheng muttered to himself. He felt that his own literary energy was growing too fast, so his actual combat experience was lagging behind, and he couldn't fully exert his strength.

It seems that I need to slay more demons and monsters and accumulate more combat experience... Lu Zheng thought to himself.

He looked at Bai Jin's corpse beside him and bent down to take a small leather bag from the other's waist.

In the previous battle with Bai Jin, the opponent had no weapons, but suddenly took out a knife, which made Lu Zheng aware of it.

Lu Zheng took the leather bag and tried to sense it.

After a while, Lu Zheng discovered that this bag was indeed a storage bag. The space inside was only three feet square, but it contained a lot of things, including some spirit stones, elixirs, spirit medicines, and other spiritual objects.

Lu Zheng took out all the things and sorted them into categories.

Although he didn't recognize many things, he had a righteous spirit and could easily sense whether things were good or bad.

Everything that was useful to him was collected as trophies.

The remaining spiritual objects that contained evil and foul energy were all destroyed by a fire.

Then, Lu Zheng walked around the spacious cave, but didn't find any useful items, so he started a fire.

Then, he hurried to other caves and nests, starting fires wherever he went.

We will resolutely not leave a good place for the demons and ghosts that gather here in the future.

The talisman that An Jing had cast before killed all the demons and ghosts that came.

Lu Zheng searched around Jiguana Mountain again and found a few little demons and ghosts, and cleaned them up together.

"call……"

Lu Zheng came out of a smoke-filled passage and took a deep breath of the fresh air outside.

He looked back at Jiguana Mountain, and the whole mountain was filled with a faint smoke.

"Unfortunately, it's not strong enough to completely destroy this mountain." Lu Zheng said slowly.

But then he thought again that the problem was not the mountain, but the demons and ghosts that occupied the mountain and did evil.

The problem must be solved from the root, but such things are not easy.

(End of this chapter)